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To give and receive love, you have to be in touch with pain, you have to be capable of provoking it and feeling it.

Jeanne Moreau

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Jeanne Moreau
Age: 89 †
Born: 1928
Born: January 23
Died: 2017
Died: July 31
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Something pretty... that's just the surface. People worry so much about aging, but you look younger if you don't worry about it.
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Death is an absolute mystery. We are all vulnerable to it, it's what makes life interesting and suspenseful.
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Success is like a liberation or the first phrase of a love story.
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When you live under the power of terror and segregation, you can't ever start a work of art.
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You should not separate your life from what you do.
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If you get trapped in the idea that what is most important is what image of yourself you're giving to the world, you're on a dangerous path.
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I don't like the idea of separating life and work. That notion seems dated and a bit alien to me.
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I know there were things emanating from me. I was not aware of what attracted all these directors to me.
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All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent.
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Age protects love not, but love protects up to a certain degree before age.
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If you're extremely, painfully frightened of age, it shows.
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Sometimes there is a great intimacy between women without any homosexuality. This is something that men are less likely to understand, because for them sensuality means sexual. It doesn't excite us to imagine two men together.
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In making dinner for a friend, don't forget the love.
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To give a character life in a short space of time, it helps if you arrive on screen with a past.
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I gradually work myself into a frenzy as the shoot approaches, while we're choosing the costumes or working with the make-up artist. I'm not so much interested in my character as the film itself.
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All those vitamins aren't to keep death at bay, they're to keep deterioration at bay.
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